Russians have long been obsessed with privilege, and with motor vehicles as its symbol. So it stands to reason that the first three major exhibits in the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Centre, which ...

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Thousands of somber and tearful mourners move past the open coffin of former President Boris Yeltsin on Tuesday, lighting candles and crossing themselves to the sound of chanted Orthodox prayers as ...

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ONCE AGAIN, PROTESTERS formed a protective cordon around the White House, Russia's Parliament building, shouting their defiance of the government. Once again, legislators hunkered down inside, ...

Boris Yeltsin didn’t often speak with foreign journalists, and when he did, it was obvious he couldn’t stand us. In 1993, as Yeltsin hit the campaign trail before a referendum on his leadership, I ...

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Leonid Bershidsky, formerly Bloomberg Opinion’s Europe columnist, is a member of the Bloomberg News Automation Team. He recently published Russian translations of George Orwell’s “1984” and Franz ...

MOSCOW — Boris Yeltsin looked weary that day 20 years ago, as if he somehow understood the burden he was taking up would eventually overwhelm him. On July 10, 1991, Yeltsin was inaugurated as the ...